Small Business Heroes: Page 5

Marketing

The Top 10 Marketing Books for Entrepreneurs

Are you connecting with your customers in the right way?

Career

Know What You're Worth: How to Maximize Your Freelance Paycheck

One writer explains the opportunities and challenges of working as a freelancer.

Green Entrepreneur

Why This Former White House Aide Thinks People Deserve More From Banks

Aspiration Bank lets customers pay what they want, donates to charity and helps people make socially responsible decisions with their money.

Culture

How This Founder Sticks to Her Principles and Stays Open Minded at the Same Time

Ilaina Edison recognized that if she wanted to incorporate hospitality into her medical practice, flexibility and patience would be key.

Growing a Business

The 3 Things You Need Before You Seek Media Coverage for Your Company

How to turn good press into big profits.

Growing a Business

This Woman Wants to Run Harlem's First Billion-Dollar Startup

Uncharted Play founder Jessica O. Matthews decided to double down on her founding principles and give back to Harlem.

Growing a Business

This Founder Is Broadening Americans' Culinary Horizons While Empowering Refugees

Manal Kahi says the employees of her catering business Eat Offbeat are 'refugees by status, but chefs by nature.'

Growing a Business

This Founder Shares How She Was Able to Bootstrap Her Way to Success While Giving Back

Patricia Ivancich Dassios raised millions as a philanthropist, but launching a beauty startup with a social good mission has required self-funding.

Growing a Business

Why Community, Not Capital, Helped This Founder Find Success

Uprise Art aims to make the experience of buying original artwork more accessible, which is why it carefully curates and doesn't view itself as a marketplace.

Growing a Business

Balancing Act: The Founder of a 'Venture Generator' Shares How He Deals With Focus and Scale

The organization 10.10.10 set out to help entrepreneurs find problems to solve, but its founder learned that his venture will be most successful if it focuses on one sector at a time.

Business News

How Dreamers Achieve Great Things

Why are so many people afraid to fail?

Growing a Business

This Founder of a Custom Skincare Company Looks to Make Acne Treatment Accessible

Curology is a dermatology startup that treats patients via the web and delivers personalized prescriptions to their homes.

Thought Leaders

Entrepreneurship Is Crossing the Fine Line Between Crazy and Genius

How do you build a food empire? Stick crazy-delicious burgers in the mail, according to this entrepreneur.

Leadership

The Best Way to Move Your Excess Inventory

Donating inventory instantly frees up warehouse space and it can provide your company with a tax deduction.

Leadership

10 Ways to Make Your Business More Socially Conscious

Social responsibility is now a key part of any successful entrepreneurial venture.